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Cloud Data Transfer

Billing

Metering methods

Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) provides unified billing services for Pay-as-you-go cloud products. Pay-as-you-go is a postpaid billing model where you are billed after resource usage. You do not need to purchase resources in advance and can provision or release resources on-demand as needed.

Supports tiered cumulative pricing for public network traffic.

Supports pay-by-data-transfer for cross-region traffic (tiered cumulative pricing is not supported).

Provides billing and invoicing features only. Actions such as product unsubscription, upgrade/downgrade, and billing conversion must be performed in the respective cloud product's console.

Billing method overview

Traffic type	Billing method	Metering method	Supported products	Billing cycle
Public network traffic	Pay-as-you-go	Billed by outbound traffic	Elastic IP Address	Both the billing cycle and the settlement cycle are on an hourly basis. On the hour (UTC+8), the platform settles fees, issues bills and deducts corresponding payments from your account balance. For details, see Bill management.
Public network traffic		Pay-as-you-go	Billed by main traffic		Bandwidth Package
Cross-region traffic	Pay-as-you-go	Billed by outbound traffic	Transit Router Cross-border public acceleration of ArkClaw Enterprise	Both the billing cycle and the settlement cycle are on an hourly basis. On the hour (UTC+8), the platform settles fees, issues bills and deducts corresponding payments from your account balance. For details, see Bill management.

Billing documentation

You can understand all aspects of CDT's pay-as-you-go billing by seeing the documents listed in the table below.

Documentation	Description
Public Network Traffic billing	Describes billing details for cloud products with Public Network traffic type.
Cross-Region Traffic billing	Describes billing details for cloud products with Cross-Region traffic type.

Last updated: 2026.09.08 10:43:46